WaPo: 3 in 10 health-care workers consider leaving the profession

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Burned out by the pandemic, 3 in 10 health-care workers consider leaving the profession
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/22/health-workers-covid-quit/

... According to a Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll, roughly 3 in 10 health-care workers have weighed leaving their profession. More than half are burned out. And about 6 in 10 say stress from the pandemic has harmed their mental health.

In wrenching interviews, nurses, doctors, technicians — and even administrative staff and dental hygienists who haven’t directly treated covid-19 patients — explained the impulse to quit and the emotional wreckage the pandemic has left in their lives.

It’s not just the danger they’ve endured, they say. Many talked about the betrayal and hypocrisy they feel from the public they have sacrificed so much to save — their clapping and hero-worship one day, then refusal to wear masks and take basic precautions the next, even if it would spare health workers the trauma of losing yet another patient.

“You feel expendable. You can’t help thinking about how this country sent us to the front lines with none of the equipment needed for the battle,” said Sharon Griswold, an emergency room doctor in Pennsylvania.

[Scrivener7]

1. I did.

[Initech]

2. After last year? Don't blame them one bit!

[crickets]

3. Who could blame them? K&R

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. All because of one man

who should now be setting in prison awaiting trial.